Mr Furious

Because we can't afford them, that's why we chose the M1A1 instead. Mace </font>

Pic 1 Well we could try to recover it but the russians will be here by then so i say we leave it and let it confuse the hell out of them, it'll probably buy us some more time sir. Pic 2 In the horror of the Eastern Front, Franz always made sure he kept his toilet paper in an easily accessible location.

While the M1A2 purchases seem to be politically orientated i must say that it sees not only the sad retirement of the Leo force but also the UTE-1 force. Nothing was more awe inspiring then seeing the RAAC tear into action in a UTE-1: with it's "crew" of 4 - 1 driver, 2 gunners, 1 spotlighter/esky minder. Watching the tinnies fly after a particularly vicious assault on enemy burrows ummm... positions, was truly a sight to see. I can hardly see the M1's fulfilling this crucial role in a better capacity. As for invading New Zealand, well we don't really want them to be honest, sure they got nice sheep and a funny accent, but still they have our military cast-offs whicg we obtained as cast-offs - it's hardly a military challenge. 75% of thier population seem to be on our unemployment benefit schemes so by international law we probably already own them.

Okay deal, but you get some reading glasses so that the wink, grin and evil stirring laugh at the end of that post don't escape your sight,like they obviously did.

Yep a cultural victory! Everyone eats italian food, drives german cars and buys japanese electronics. Who lost again !??!??!!?

It's strange, but i only ever seem to see the back of the Italians uniforms and they all look the same to me! - yella! Mwahahahahaha!

There are definitely Australian voices in the game, most often tehy seem to yell "infantry attacking" or something like that. And on one mission i swear, with a combined forces group of British and Australians, that one guy sledged with a "bowl him a piano, see if he can play that" It's true!!!!!

wOOt!!!! i have my copy here in Melbourne, Australia. :cool:

Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!! That's funny, unfortunately! I live in Aus too and it looks like we'll be getting just pre-christmas if Auspost and the expected 2 week + delivery delay is anything to go by. With our long delays over christmas, post wise, and our overly long public holiday runs, it may be the new year before we all get our copies. I haven't received any confirmation yet as to whether my copy has been sent out or not, but like previous orders from battlefront it shold be very painless. I need aussies and tanks in CM god dammit :cool: [ December 05, 2003, 09:58 AM: Message edited by: Mr Furious ]

Well the Radeon series of cards are more then capable of displaying fog effects so I can't understand how it's ATi's fault if BFC choose not to utilise that hardware feature by programming their software to work with it. I'm also assuming Anti-aliasing won't work either with cmak as the CM engine doesn't utilise it, again not ATi's fault but a decision by BFC not to support it. nVidia cards still utilise the old dx 7.1 fog tables so are supported, ATi think they are archaic (and they are) so don't support thier use. Simple as that.

Seriously how much faith and confidence would you have in your CO's if they made you a covenantor commander?!?! Legs getting trapped and crushed in a rotating gun turret, getting your head cracked open by a dodgy hatch! Holy hell! You'd feel like that somehow the axis and allies had entered into an injury lease agreement where any deficits in a set quota had to be filled by the deficant side! "Yes i got my first purple heart when my foot was wrenched from my body by a rotating gun turret in the birmingham parade grounds while my second permanently disfiguring injury, and subsequent second purple heart, and discharge from the services, occured when my head was jammed into the gun breach by an errant hatch door, while displaying in the Edinburgh military tattoo of '42, left a nasty mark that one. I can still hear their screams on the cold and lonely nights..... ah no that's just the tinnitus from my permanent concussion." (An exerpt from the book: Covenantor Commander in the breach: 3 days in hell, by Dale "Hingy" McBain.)

Happy New Year! Michael </font>

I've preordered and am currently trying to DL this and Deus Ex:IW at the same time on 56K Decisions, decisions. I guess though being in Aus my order will take at least 3 weeks to arrive after it's released.

Being an Australian i like to, naturally, read Australian perspectives of war, for that i recommend that you read Tobruk 1941 by Chester Wilmot. It's predominatly about Australia's 242 day defense of Tobruk, it does though seem to detail a good amount of Africa Korp tactics particularly in attack, and it also details what tactics the Africa Korp were open to. It also offers a balanced view from both sides of the siege, well i guess as balanced as could be realistically expected. It also includes probably my favourite quote from world war 2 "The rats of Tobruk, those self-supporting prisoners of war" - Lord Haw Haw

Coloured me embarassed, probably more so that i've just finished reading a few books on the 2nd SS panzer division in Normandy (Steel Inferno - Michael Reynolds) and just last month i finished reading Cornelius' Ryan - A Bridge Too Far. AS for the disposition of American armies, well I profess to not really know much about them except in what i read from a few books (those mostly on the 101 airborne in europe). I still contest that an thrust into germany by Patton with an unknown refitting panzer corp at his flank could of been very catastrophic. Perhaps annhilation was too strong a word, perhaps not. I think i might read up on the Arracourt battle, don't know anything about it, sounds interesting.

Sound like a plan, would work as well.

Well from the looks of things that may well have been the case, but i contest that the attrition rate under Patton would of been horific, probably far more then Market Garden produced. The refitting 2nd SS panzer division in Holland would also have had more time to refit and plan attack upon Pattons army. Imagine the 2nd SS drivng into Pattons 4th army flank, his forces would of been annhilated. While i don't neccesarily think that the MG operation was a good idea, nether-the-less it was executed with due consideration - except for the whole Intel issue-which would of been out of Monty's hands. Having a grandfather who fought with the Red Devils across WW2 he knew what might face them if they didn't link up with Horrocks, they weren't inexperinced soldiers they were a fighting airbourne unit. My granddad has no regrets about it because he still believes that if they had linked up with XXX corps they could of driven the Werhmacht into germany very quickly and enforced a very quick surrender, well he does regret the deaths of his mates.

Mr Tittles, you put forward an excellent argument for the inclusion of WP in CMAK. What i'm wondering though is whether, if it is included, they restrict it to simply being used as mortar smoke, keeping the effects of wp, but perhaps allowing you to only target areas and NOT specific enemy formations(this removes itsabuse as "napalm" saturation. Of course WP tank shells could be directed fire as standard. I am convinced of it's need for inclusion but if it is and restrictions aren't placed on it's use it'll be abused very quickly by some in the comunity, that's my only problem with it though.

Nice stuff, thanks for the link.

Bogart or Belushi? </font>

BWAHAHAAHHAHHAHAHA!!!! Love it, damn croweaters! as Homer Simpson would say, it's funny cause it's true. Anyway any chance of modelling casualties from march (biting) fly attacks? How about sunburn/heatstroke? Dysentery at all? don't tell me these aren't modelled ingame?!?!!

Big thumbs up to ozi_digger ... and Sir Real, for the server space, for me to download from on my 56K. I really appreciate you finding all this info Ozi_digger, now all we need is CMAK and here come the new Aussie scenarios. Big thumbs down to my Bigpond 1mb attachment limit, thanks Telstra.

Sahara is always a favourite of mine. Can't beat that ending.

Yes us Aussies are renowned for pub fights during WW2 the greatest being The Battle of Melbourne, a fight that started between US Servicemen and Australian Soldiers on leave at Young& Jacksons pub here in Melbourne, Victoria. The fight lasted 3 days, people would go home, go to sleep and come back for a bit of a fight, the cops couldn't break it up, the commanding officers couldn't control their men (and were usually involved thick in the fighting anyway)and i don't think there were any resultant deaths either. No one was court-marshalled and it was estimated taht at any one time up to 500 men were fighting in the pub and on the streets... trying to get into the pub. I've also read a lot about the AIF's involvement in the middle east and in particular Tobruk. Throughout these books the authors made it clear that "no man's land" between Aussie and German lines ie the minefield and immediate surrounds was really held by the Aussies who maintained continual patrols around the minefields and attacked and ambusehed the opposition armies as much aspossible, particularly the Italian armies who they found broke easier then the Afrika Korps, breaking the backs of a lot of attacks, that really should of broken through. Of course any war reporting from the personal view is probably biased in some fashion, so i'm not sure how accurate the reporting is. I'll have to find these books now and read up on them again.